Breeding Jordan Species Wildlife 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2011
Being winter, this bird is in non-breeding plumage with more brown upper parts and lacking the white face it acquires in its aternate (breeding) plumage. 6 Responses to “White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge&# Birding is Fun! It was foraging in breast deep water. You never know what you might see!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
Sales of duck stamps have funded the preservation of wetlands and other wildlife habitat, which in turn has supported an increase in waterfowl populations. Eventually, the pigeons, as it were, may come home to roost and the waterfowl and other wildlife, as well as hunters and bird watchers, will be sitting ducks.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 12, 2011
Black-necked Stilt ( Himantopus mexicanus ) photos by Larry Jordan Click on photos for full sized images. The male of the species has the upper portion of the head, back of neck, back and wings all glossy black. He also has longer legs than the female.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Birders know that the light’s not always perfect or even particularly good when you’re trying to tell one species from another. The big white one. It flies on.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2011
The little stiff-tails are almost year-round at Jamaica Bay though almost all leave to breed in the summer and in the depths of winter, when the ponds are almost completely frozen, they tend to head for open water. I can see why you thought you had found a new breed with this one. Do you think it is the female? The proposal from U.S.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2011
In southern Africa, there are two species. Outside of the tropics, nesting would usually take place in the spring (in the southern hemisphere, spring and the height of the breeding season occurs before Christmas); these pictures were taken in March as the weather in Cape Town is beginning to cool. How do we know this?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 15, 2012
This bird spent the 2011-2012 winter at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in northern California, migrated someplace exotic and distant in February, and returned to the same pond at the beginning of this month. This bird represented only the second documented record of this species in Florida. What better way to start a birding day?
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